In Present perfect^x, Auxiliaries^x

HiYour sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ...""the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they...

Be careful, sometimes the verb "have" and the past participle (or "had" and the past participle, if we are talking about the past perfect) are not adjacent, so you cannot make your choices simply by simply looking at their proximity! All of the following sentences, for...

Is it a rule that the auxiliary, the past participle and the main verb are immediately after one another with no other words inbetween?For example: "Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?" This sentence has both "have" and "had" and two...

Hi, You must be presented to win. Do I put "ed" on "present" because of "be?" No. 'Present' is an adjective here. It's like saying 'You must be quiet in class.She has offered me candy. Here, 'offered' is not an adjective. It's a past...

are. What has happened to them in Modern English? There was no future tense in Old English even though the predecessor of will was sometimes used to indicate future action. Its meaning was "to want, to desire" and will has mostly lost this meaning. It is still present in some contexts,...

1. Well, "had" is the past tense of the verb "have", but I think you're asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs: I played -- simple past tense I have played -- present perfect tense I had played -- past perfect (or...

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ

By "true" I think you mean "correct"? True is the opposite of false, but doesn't apply to grammar. Only you can tell if your cell phone has no power, which would make the statement true. As far as correct goes, you could say "My cellphone has no power...

Clive wrote: Hi, You didn't let me know about the address. I think, here, did is a main verb and "let me know about the address" is a object of the verb "did". Consider the sentence if you make it positive. You let me know about the address. The main verb is 'let'. 'Did' is just an auxiliary...

Hi, Please take a look at the sentence below and tell me why the past perfect is used? Is it used since the fact contain within there is relevant to the present situation? I am used to seeing the present perfect being used in the main clause and it seems a little foreign to see it in a auxiliary...